So...How are we going to keep ourselves entertained till launch?And do you know anything on how the head start works Geek?Shouldn't we be downloading a retail client at some point? I bought the digital distribution straight from Trion and I must say my account page doesn't have much in the way of details on it.

Will Retail CE pre-orders access the head start the same way we accessed beta through a download, or will we receive the physical game early?Beta and Head Start are two different clients; each will require their own download. As long as you have applied a pre-order key to your account, you'll be able to download the launch client and play in the Head Start. We'll post more information about downloading the launch client in the coming weeks.

hmm... head start is just three days away. Not much time left to post that information. I would be rather disappointed if I have to download a full 5GB client again together with everybody else in the next two days.

The vistas look really good though! Almost like from a different game. I don't think I have been anywhere where I wasn't surrounded by at least 20 other players. Handy when a rift opens, but not so convinient when exploring hidden vistas.

Well, the new client makes sense. All the extra data colelcted and transferred to Trion HQ by your Beta client isn't necessary anymore. Everyone who bought the pre-order will be downloading the client yes. Retails will install from CD and update.

EU Launch isn't till march 4th, however we can play on US servers during headstart. (US launches are typically on Tuesday, EU ones on Friday) Not that we'd want to. Not sure if the EU head start starts Thursday. It'd be a whole week head start. That's a lot.

EU headstart starts Thursday, yes we do get a whole week :) It's launching on a friday because that's a traditional launch date here in the EU (it is in the UK anyway), thankfully they decided to kick off EU and US headstart without any of those considerations.